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74th Year No. 2 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, September yS 1981 9 Sections - 66 Pages 25 Cents
Appropriations bill falls short in House test vote
New York Times
WASHINGTON President Reagan, rais-ing
pressure on Congress to cut spending be- lo- w
ceilings imposed earlier this year, Tues-day
issued his first threat of a veto of an
appropriations bill and immediately won a
key test vote in the House of Representa-tives.
Concerned that a $ 56.3 billion appropria-tions
measure for housing, veterans affairs
and other functions would exceed his own
spending targets by $ 600 million in those
areas, Reagan quietly directed his lobbyists
Monday night to raise the threat of a veto if
the bill passed in the House.
" If budget- bustin- g bills do come down, I
will veto them," Reagan told a meeting of
Republican congressional leaders Tuesday
morning. " I want to make that plain."
He issued his threat despite private warn-ings
by Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., the Sen-ate
majority leader, and Rep. Silvio O. Con- t- e,
ranking Republican on the House
Appropriations Committee. Both told Rea-gan
Tuesday morning that a veto threat
would be an assault on congressional prerog-atives,
according to both White House and
congressional sources.
Nevertheless, after Reagan's threat was
conveyed to Capitol Hill, the appropriations
bill was narrowly approved, 209- 19- 7, far
short of the 290 votes that would be needed to
override a veto. White House officials said
they were " encouraged" by the vote, noting
that in July a similar appropriations mea-sure
passed 362- 5- 4.
The veto threat appeared to mark a turn-ing
point in Reagan's relations with the Con-gress.
Up to now, the president has used his
considerable powers of persuasion to win ap-proval
of several all- encompass- ing fiscal
measures viewed on Capitol Hill almost as
referendums on Reagan's goals.
Now the battle has shifted to specific ap-propriations
bills over which the congressio-nal
committees feel very protective. The
veto threat signifies that Reagan had to shift
into the more traditionally confrontational
posture of past presidents. His aides de-scribe
this new phase as posing the most se-rious
test yet of Reagan's popularity.
Tuesday's action was significant in anoth-er
way. The appropriations bill Reagan
threatened to veto did not exceed any of the
spending ceilings Congress imposed on itself
at Reagan's urging in May or July. It did, in
the administration's view, exceed the budget
Reagan originally submitted in March.
Thus the president's action was the first
unmistakeable sign that he intends to hold
Congress to an even tighter fiscal policy than
embodied in the budget resolution he signed
into law this summer.
In another development, administration
officials said one step Reagan would propose
to cut the budget next year would be a has-tened
elimination of the energy and educa-tion
departments. Republican congressmen
said variously Tuesday that Reagan would
seek new cuts in the next fiscal year of be-tween
$ 13 billion and $ 20 billion.
White House officials took pains Tuesday
to say that no new cuts in Social Security
would be urged on Congress at the present
time. They said Reagan was also disinclined
to seek cuts in such other entitlement pro-grams
as welfare, Medicaid, food stamps or
pensions.
David R. Gergen, the senior White House
spokesman, also said Reagan would reject
suggestions that he cut defense spending by
more than the $ 13 billion in the next three
years he announced last weekend.
In contrast to Reagan's visible display of
lobbying on budget matters earlier this year,
the president's veto threat Monday night and
Tuesday was not even acknowledged by
White House officials until Tuesday af-ternoon,
after the House vote. The unusual
secrecy was seen as testimony to Reagan's
sensitivity to congressional prerogatives
even as he began preparing for more new fis-cal
confrontations.
Insiglfit
Scouting shows
revived growth
By David Coorlang
MUsourian staff writer
The proverbial little old lady who
fears that she may have to cross a
busy street unescorted need not wor-ry.
After a decade of declining mem-bership,
there has been a resurgence
in the number of boys joining the
Boy Scouts of America-- .
After losing 10 percent of its mem-bers
from 1973- 7- 9, the Boonslick Dis-trict
of the Boy Scouts of America,
j which encompasses Boone, Cooper
and Howard counties, reported a 14
percent increase from December
1979 to December 1980.
Larry Tyree, Boonslick district ex-ecutive,
said he expects 500 Colum-bia
boys to join the world's oldest or-ganization
designed specifically for
young men aged 8 to 21 before the
end of the year.
Increased local membership coin-cides
with a renewed nationwide in-terest
in Scouting, which, after los-ing
close to a third of its
membership during the last decade,
experienced a 1 percent membership
increase from December 1979 to De-cember
1980.
Scouting grew steadily after its
1910 inception and reached peak
membership in 1973. But negative at-titudes
toward traditional organized
groups, including theBoy Scouts, de-veloped
in post- Vietna- m America,
and Scouting membership, including
numbers of adult volunteers,
nosedived. National membership
dropped from 6.4 million to 4.5 mil-lion
boys by the end of the decade.
Nationwide rejection of the scout-ing
program did not go unnoticed in
the mid- Misso- uri area. Although the
Great Rivers Council, which is head-quartered
in Columbia and serves 33
mid- Misso- uri counties, did not expe-rience
as sharp a decline in mem-bership
as the national organization,
Chris Mathes, council field director,
said the council lost lost 2.300 mem--
bers during the period a 13 per-- S
cent decline.
William Hillcourt, a retired nation-al
Scout official and author of the
1979 revised issue of the " Scout
Handbook," blames the 1972 hand-book
revision as the primary reason
for Scouting's decline.
In a Newsweek article, Hillcourt
said the revision took " all the ro-mance
out of scouting" by shifting
the emphasis from country and for-est
activites to inner- cit- y pursuits.
He said city activities, such as con-sumer
awareness programs and
street hiking, had replaced tradition-al
scouting endeavors, such as over-night
campiM, campfire -- cooking
and nature studies.
" We still taught kids how to treat
snakebites, but we also taught them
how to treat rat bites," Hillcourt
. said.
Mathes disagrees with Hillcourt's
assertion. He says Scouting has al-ways
catered to boys interested in
camping, and that scouts receive a
first- han- d outdoor education.
Mathes partially blames post- Vietna- m
attitudes for the decline.
" It ( the 1970s) was a period when
youth didn't want to and it wasn't so-cially
acceptable to belong to any-thing
organized," Mathes said.
Mathes also said the growing num-ber
of single- pare- nt families made it
difficult to find the adult volunteers
needed to make the organization
function as it had from the 1930s to
the early 1970s.
Other activites, such as Little
League, school- sponsor- ed compet-itive
sports, part- tim- e jobs and tele-vision
viewing lured potential Scouts
away, Mathes said.
But things turned around for
Scouting last year.
For the first time since 1972,
Scouting was able to report a net
gain in membership. A one percent
( See AD, Page 14A)
InsMe today
Diablo protest
Marching through rattlesnake in-fested
hills and boarding rafts for an
invasion by sea, anti- nucle- ar activ-ists
planned to blockade the Diablo
Canyon reactor in central California
Tuesday. The Coast Guard and Na-tional
Guardsmen prepared for a
confrontation with an estimated 1,- 5- 00
to 3,000 protesters. See story,
Pagel2A.
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Grounded
The fuselage of a 1942 DC-- 3 rolled to a tight
landing Tuesday morning on North Ninth
Street, and passersby didn't seem to
remember there being an airport anywhere
near downtown Columbia. It didn't sound
much like a plane either. That's because the
plane is a van, owned by H. L. " Smokey"
Rolland of California, and is part of a
promotion for the Ozark Extravaganza ' 81 .
Rolland stopped in Columbia for lunch on
his way from Rolla to Kansas City. The van
gets attention wherever it goes, and the
curious passerby . above, tried to get a
closer look at the van's interior. The
producers of NBC's " Real People" were so
curious that they featured Rolland and his
unusual " wheels" on the program- last year.
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Federal cuts may cost state $ 70 million
By Tom Cohen
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY A University econo-mist
Tuesday told a state Senate committee
that Missouri will lose half its corporate in-come
tax revenue about $ 70 million a
year by 1965 because of President Reagan's
tax cuts.
A staff member of the same committee said
next year's loss in corporate taxes could reach
$ 20 million two thirds the total revenue loss
for that year projected by the state Depart-ment
of Revenue.
Ed Robb, director of the research center at
the University's College of Business and Pub-lic
Administation, told the Senate Interim Tax
Planning Committee the state will lose SO per-cent
of its corporate tax income in four years
because of Reagan's " accelerated recovery
Corporate income tax to dwindle
plan," which raises the depreciation deduc-tions
for businesses. Because state taxes are
keyed to federal taxes, the deductions act to
erode corporate tax income.
Robb estimated the state would have collec-ted
$ 165 million in corporate' tax receipts in
1985 without the Reagan cuts. The projected
loss of half that figure roughly equals the oper-ating
surplus in this year's state budget. The
surplus is the buffer held in state accounts to
ensure the presence of sufficient funds.
For 1383, the $ 20 million loss would be about
1 percent of the state's current general reve-nue
budget of $ 2 billion.'
Robb's figures prompted committee mem-bers
to redirect their goal from raising new
revenue to retrieving what will be lost.
" We have to make up what we've lost," said
Democratic state Sen. Hardin Cox of Rock- por- t,
Mo., the committee's chairman.
The state has three options to offset cor-porate
revenue losses, Robb said. It might
force businesses to pay taxes on sales, on real
property and on payrolls rather than sales
alone; eliminate the new federal deductions
from state taxes; or raise state corporate in-come
tax rates.
The committee made no decisions on the al-ternatives
but will consider them at a meeting
in early October.
The testimony of another University profes-sor
moved the committee to indefinitely post-pone
a proposed public opinion survey on
taxes.
David Leuthold, chairman of the political
science department, told the committee he
" would not spend money" now polling Mis- souria- ns
as to which tax increases they might
tolerate. The only value of a new survey would
be more precise data on tax increases, he said.
Such a survey would cost the state about
$ 15,000.
Public opinion surveys over the past two de-cades
indicate Missourians might support
some form of tax increase, Leuthold said, add-ing
that his studies indicate some forms of tax-ation
are more popular than others.
" Earmarked sales tax is popular to voters,"
Leuthold said. " It gives them an opportunity to
provide taxes to the particular services they
want."
An earmarked tax restricts use of the tax
money to predetermined functions.
City trash rates tops in Midwest
ByScsan. Atieberry
Missouriaa staff writer
Columbia's monthly garbage pick-up
rates soon will become the high-est
among five Midwest cities of sim-ilar
size, according to a survey
conducted by the Columbia Missour- -
ian. .
Residents now pay $ 4.50 a month to
have garbage hauled away, but that
figure will climb to $ 5.60 beginning
Oct. 1. The last increase came in
1979, when the rate was hiked from
By contrast, Norman, Osla., has a
$ 4 fee. City utilities rates there can-not
be raised without approval of the
voters. The service is free in Cape
Girardeau, where the program is tax
supported. Fort Smith, Ark., the
largest city in the poll, has the sec-ond
lowest rate, $ 3.75 a month.
Of the five cities, only Columbia
provides just one residential pickup
a week.
Cape Girardeau provides six. In
addition to twice- week- ly pickups,
neighborhood dumpsters are emp-tied
three times each week, and
cumbersome refuse such as appli-ances
and furniture are hauled away
every Wednesday.
The rate increase for Columbia
residents will go in part to the gar-bage
truck crews. A contract signed
this summer enables loaders to earn
up to $ 6.13 an hour. Loaders in Nor-man,
Okla., can earn 28 cents more
an hour.
Salary increases are not the only
reason for the Columbia rate in-crease.
Another contributing factor
is the rising cost of garbage bags and
equipment maintenance, said Harold
Boldt, city finance director.
The solid waste department is not
generating enough revenue to offset
expenditures. Boldt expects the
$ 250,000 usually on hand to pay for
bags to drop to $ S0,000 by the end of
September. This year, as much as
$ 92,000 may have to be spent on capi-tal
additions such as new equipment
that " should have been made in
1979," Boldt said.
Though it contains a $ 3.2 million
surplus, the city budget cannot ab-sorb
the department's added ex-penses.
a
" It isn't all in the same pot," Boldt
said.
" Surplus" is a misleading term
when used to describe money in the
general fund, Boldt added. The city
has to maintain a cushion. By allow-ing
the $ 3.2 million to draw interest,
he said, government avoids having
to raise sales or property taxes.
" The solid waste department has
already been subsidized more than it
should have been," Boldt said.
Comparative Cost of Garbage Co9efion
tote Pickup Starting Maximum Ptdosps
city Pop.- - Praic Budgat' Workers Py Pey PsrWfe.
Columbia 62,617 $ 5.60 $ 665,141 19 $ 5.12 $ 6.13 1
Uwrence, Kan. 52,738 5.00 1,124,850 21 5.00 6.41 2
Fort Smith, Ark. -- 71,384 3.75 419,730 47 , 4.13 5.06 2
Norman, Okla. 68,384 4.00 1,471,160 56 4.98 6.00 2
Cape Girardeau 34,318 None 229,015 17 . 564 1,084" 6
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74th Year No. 2 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, September yS 1981 9 Sections - 66 Pages 25 Cents
Appropriations bill falls short in House test vote
New York Times
WASHINGTON President Reagan, rais-ing
pressure on Congress to cut spending be- lo- w
ceilings imposed earlier this year, Tues-day
issued his first threat of a veto of an
appropriations bill and immediately won a
key test vote in the House of Representa-tives.
Concerned that a $ 56.3 billion appropria-tions
measure for housing, veterans affairs
and other functions would exceed his own
spending targets by $ 600 million in those
areas, Reagan quietly directed his lobbyists
Monday night to raise the threat of a veto if
the bill passed in the House.
" If budget- bustin- g bills do come down, I
will veto them," Reagan told a meeting of
Republican congressional leaders Tuesday
morning. " I want to make that plain."
He issued his threat despite private warn-ings
by Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., the Sen-ate
majority leader, and Rep. Silvio O. Con- t- e,
ranking Republican on the House
Appropriations Committee. Both told Rea-gan
Tuesday morning that a veto threat
would be an assault on congressional prerog-atives,
according to both White House and
congressional sources.
Nevertheless, after Reagan's threat was
conveyed to Capitol Hill, the appropriations
bill was narrowly approved, 209- 19- 7, far
short of the 290 votes that would be needed to
override a veto. White House officials said
they were " encouraged" by the vote, noting
that in July a similar appropriations mea-sure
passed 362- 5- 4.
The veto threat appeared to mark a turn-ing
point in Reagan's relations with the Con-gress.
Up to now, the president has used his
considerable powers of persuasion to win ap-proval
of several all- encompass- ing fiscal
measures viewed on Capitol Hill almost as
referendums on Reagan's goals.
Now the battle has shifted to specific ap-propriations
bills over which the congressio-nal
committees feel very protective. The
veto threat signifies that Reagan had to shift
into the more traditionally confrontational
posture of past presidents. His aides de-scribe
this new phase as posing the most se-rious
test yet of Reagan's popularity.
Tuesday's action was significant in anoth-er
way. The appropriations bill Reagan
threatened to veto did not exceed any of the
spending ceilings Congress imposed on itself
at Reagan's urging in May or July. It did, in
the administration's view, exceed the budget
Reagan originally submitted in March.
Thus the president's action was the first
unmistakeable sign that he intends to hold
Congress to an even tighter fiscal policy than
embodied in the budget resolution he signed
into law this summer.
In another development, administration
officials said one step Reagan would propose
to cut the budget next year would be a has-tened
elimination of the energy and educa-tion
departments. Republican congressmen
said variously Tuesday that Reagan would
seek new cuts in the next fiscal year of be-tween
$ 13 billion and $ 20 billion.
White House officials took pains Tuesday
to say that no new cuts in Social Security
would be urged on Congress at the present
time. They said Reagan was also disinclined
to seek cuts in such other entitlement pro-grams
as welfare, Medicaid, food stamps or
pensions.
David R. Gergen, the senior White House
spokesman, also said Reagan would reject
suggestions that he cut defense spending by
more than the $ 13 billion in the next three
years he announced last weekend.
In contrast to Reagan's visible display of
lobbying on budget matters earlier this year,
the president's veto threat Monday night and
Tuesday was not even acknowledged by
White House officials until Tuesday af-ternoon,
after the House vote. The unusual
secrecy was seen as testimony to Reagan's
sensitivity to congressional prerogatives
even as he began preparing for more new fis-cal
confrontations.
Insiglfit
Scouting shows
revived growth
By David Coorlang
MUsourian staff writer
The proverbial little old lady who
fears that she may have to cross a
busy street unescorted need not wor-ry.
After a decade of declining mem-bership,
there has been a resurgence
in the number of boys joining the
Boy Scouts of America-- .
After losing 10 percent of its mem-bers
from 1973- 7- 9, the Boonslick Dis-trict
of the Boy Scouts of America,
j which encompasses Boone, Cooper
and Howard counties, reported a 14
percent increase from December
1979 to December 1980.
Larry Tyree, Boonslick district ex-ecutive,
said he expects 500 Colum-bia
boys to join the world's oldest or-ganization
designed specifically for
young men aged 8 to 21 before the
end of the year.
Increased local membership coin-cides
with a renewed nationwide in-terest
in Scouting, which, after los-ing
close to a third of its
membership during the last decade,
experienced a 1 percent membership
increase from December 1979 to De-cember
1980.
Scouting grew steadily after its
1910 inception and reached peak
membership in 1973. But negative at-titudes
toward traditional organized
groups, including theBoy Scouts, de-veloped
in post- Vietna- m America,
and Scouting membership, including
numbers of adult volunteers,
nosedived. National membership
dropped from 6.4 million to 4.5 mil-lion
boys by the end of the decade.
Nationwide rejection of the scout-ing
program did not go unnoticed in
the mid- Misso- uri area. Although the
Great Rivers Council, which is head-quartered
in Columbia and serves 33
mid- Misso- uri counties, did not expe-rience
as sharp a decline in mem-bership
as the national organization,
Chris Mathes, council field director,
said the council lost lost 2.300 mem--
bers during the period a 13 per-- S
cent decline.
William Hillcourt, a retired nation-al
Scout official and author of the
1979 revised issue of the " Scout
Handbook," blames the 1972 hand-book
revision as the primary reason
for Scouting's decline.
In a Newsweek article, Hillcourt
said the revision took " all the ro-mance
out of scouting" by shifting
the emphasis from country and for-est
activites to inner- cit- y pursuits.
He said city activities, such as con-sumer
awareness programs and
street hiking, had replaced tradition-al
scouting endeavors, such as over-night
campiM, campfire -- cooking
and nature studies.
" We still taught kids how to treat
snakebites, but we also taught them
how to treat rat bites," Hillcourt
. said.
Mathes disagrees with Hillcourt's
assertion. He says Scouting has al-ways
catered to boys interested in
camping, and that scouts receive a
first- han- d outdoor education.
Mathes partially blames post- Vietna- m
attitudes for the decline.
" It ( the 1970s) was a period when
youth didn't want to and it wasn't so-cially
acceptable to belong to any-thing
organized," Mathes said.
Mathes also said the growing num-ber
of single- pare- nt families made it
difficult to find the adult volunteers
needed to make the organization
function as it had from the 1930s to
the early 1970s.
Other activites, such as Little
League, school- sponsor- ed compet-itive
sports, part- tim- e jobs and tele-vision
viewing lured potential Scouts
away, Mathes said.
But things turned around for
Scouting last year.
For the first time since 1972,
Scouting was able to report a net
gain in membership. A one percent
( See AD, Page 14A)
InsMe today
Diablo protest
Marching through rattlesnake in-fested
hills and boarding rafts for an
invasion by sea, anti- nucle- ar activ-ists
planned to blockade the Diablo
Canyon reactor in central California
Tuesday. The Coast Guard and Na-tional
Guardsmen prepared for a
confrontation with an estimated 1,- 5- 00
to 3,000 protesters. See story,
Pagel2A.
lBltX
Business
Classified MD
Opinion..... ... .. tvJ
Sports
Theater..... . .........
Weather 3A
SBBpSsSyr ( v v' --" 1
"
"(-- ' vy ' kfr'flr " " r "-
-"!" MHSSbEc J . !. j OHBBJBWKBHJBBmMm
fMrfnTP7iYiMTTT1 r i - --- Jr r i T Z" JZ i Mm
Grounded
The fuselage of a 1942 DC-- 3 rolled to a tight
landing Tuesday morning on North Ninth
Street, and passersby didn't seem to
remember there being an airport anywhere
near downtown Columbia. It didn't sound
much like a plane either. That's because the
plane is a van, owned by H. L. " Smokey"
Rolland of California, and is part of a
promotion for the Ozark Extravaganza ' 81 .
Rolland stopped in Columbia for lunch on
his way from Rolla to Kansas City. The van
gets attention wherever it goes, and the
curious passerby . above, tried to get a
closer look at the van's interior. The
producers of NBC's " Real People" were so
curious that they featured Rolland and his
unusual " wheels" on the program- last year.
" u" CMtfwIt
Federal cuts may cost state $ 70 million
By Tom Cohen
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY A University econo-mist
Tuesday told a state Senate committee
that Missouri will lose half its corporate in-come
tax revenue about $ 70 million a
year by 1965 because of President Reagan's
tax cuts.
A staff member of the same committee said
next year's loss in corporate taxes could reach
$ 20 million two thirds the total revenue loss
for that year projected by the state Depart-ment
of Revenue.
Ed Robb, director of the research center at
the University's College of Business and Pub-lic
Administation, told the Senate Interim Tax
Planning Committee the state will lose SO per-cent
of its corporate tax income in four years
because of Reagan's " accelerated recovery
Corporate income tax to dwindle
plan," which raises the depreciation deduc-tions
for businesses. Because state taxes are
keyed to federal taxes, the deductions act to
erode corporate tax income.
Robb estimated the state would have collec-ted
$ 165 million in corporate' tax receipts in
1985 without the Reagan cuts. The projected
loss of half that figure roughly equals the oper-ating
surplus in this year's state budget. The
surplus is the buffer held in state accounts to
ensure the presence of sufficient funds.
For 1383, the $ 20 million loss would be about
1 percent of the state's current general reve-nue
budget of $ 2 billion.'
Robb's figures prompted committee mem-bers
to redirect their goal from raising new
revenue to retrieving what will be lost.
" We have to make up what we've lost," said
Democratic state Sen. Hardin Cox of Rock- por- t,
Mo., the committee's chairman.
The state has three options to offset cor-porate
revenue losses, Robb said. It might
force businesses to pay taxes on sales, on real
property and on payrolls rather than sales
alone; eliminate the new federal deductions
from state taxes; or raise state corporate in-come
tax rates.
The committee made no decisions on the al-ternatives
but will consider them at a meeting
in early October.
The testimony of another University profes-sor
moved the committee to indefinitely post-pone
a proposed public opinion survey on
taxes.
David Leuthold, chairman of the political
science department, told the committee he
" would not spend money" now polling Mis- souria- ns
as to which tax increases they might
tolerate. The only value of a new survey would
be more precise data on tax increases, he said.
Such a survey would cost the state about
$ 15,000.
Public opinion surveys over the past two de-cades
indicate Missourians might support
some form of tax increase, Leuthold said, add-ing
that his studies indicate some forms of tax-ation
are more popular than others.
" Earmarked sales tax is popular to voters,"
Leuthold said. " It gives them an opportunity to
provide taxes to the particular services they
want."
An earmarked tax restricts use of the tax
money to predetermined functions.
City trash rates tops in Midwest
ByScsan. Atieberry
Missouriaa staff writer
Columbia's monthly garbage pick-up
rates soon will become the high-est
among five Midwest cities of sim-ilar
size, according to a survey
conducted by the Columbia Missour- -
ian. .
Residents now pay $ 4.50 a month to
have garbage hauled away, but that
figure will climb to $ 5.60 beginning
Oct. 1. The last increase came in
1979, when the rate was hiked from
By contrast, Norman, Osla., has a
$ 4 fee. City utilities rates there can-not
be raised without approval of the
voters. The service is free in Cape
Girardeau, where the program is tax
supported. Fort Smith, Ark., the
largest city in the poll, has the sec-ond
lowest rate, $ 3.75 a month.
Of the five cities, only Columbia
provides just one residential pickup
a week.
Cape Girardeau provides six. In
addition to twice- week- ly pickups,
neighborhood dumpsters are emp-tied
three times each week, and
cumbersome refuse such as appli-ances
and furniture are hauled away
every Wednesday.
The rate increase for Columbia
residents will go in part to the gar-bage
truck crews. A contract signed
this summer enables loaders to earn
up to $ 6.13 an hour. Loaders in Nor-man,
Okla., can earn 28 cents more
an hour.
Salary increases are not the only
reason for the Columbia rate in-crease.
Another contributing factor
is the rising cost of garbage bags and
equipment maintenance, said Harold
Boldt, city finance director.
The solid waste department is not
generating enough revenue to offset
expenditures. Boldt expects the
$ 250,000 usually on hand to pay for
bags to drop to $ S0,000 by the end of
September. This year, as much as
$ 92,000 may have to be spent on capi-tal
additions such as new equipment
that " should have been made in
1979," Boldt said.
Though it contains a $ 3.2 million
surplus, the city budget cannot ab-sorb
the department's added ex-penses.
a
" It isn't all in the same pot," Boldt
said.
" Surplus" is a misleading term
when used to describe money in the
general fund, Boldt added. The city
has to maintain a cushion. By allow-ing
the $ 3.2 million to draw interest,
he said, government avoids having
to raise sales or property taxes.
" The solid waste department has
already been subsidized more than it
should have been," Boldt said.
Comparative Cost of Garbage Co9efion
tote Pickup Starting Maximum Ptdosps
city Pop.- - Praic Budgat' Workers Py Pey PsrWfe.
Columbia 62,617 $ 5.60 $ 665,141 19 $ 5.12 $ 6.13 1
Uwrence, Kan. 52,738 5.00 1,124,850 21 5.00 6.41 2
Fort Smith, Ark. -- 71,384 3.75 419,730 47 , 4.13 5.06 2
Norman, Okla. 68,384 4.00 1,471,160 56 4.98 6.00 2
Cape Girardeau 34,318 None 229,015 17 . 564 1,084" 6
' ftaotttantsl coHoetlon budett only. Incfcrtto aucft ! Mno w buying bega. aaloriaa, equipment and matatananca.
Total nvnttrirfanpMyMS on pictup crews. "
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Starting pay tor loedara. s
Maximum pqt for loadaro.
fumauraaraftsutedtwweryWtdneatsy.
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